I’ve written on topics from gauchos in Argentina to undocumented immigration in the U.S. and international banking in Canada. If there’s a thread running through my work, it’s a love of international places and an obsession with living other cultures, other languages and other people’s lives – then putting that into words and pictures.

The siteThis site is called Independent Journalism. I tried to choose those words carefully. By independent, I mean not just that the reporting is unbiased but that it stems from independent thinking. I aim to tell stories that haven’t been told before, in ways that haven’t been tried. By journalism, I mean that what I do is serious and rigorous, even though I try not to take myself too seriously.

If you’re still reading . . .A little on where I’m coming from: I grew up in New York and studied literature at Cornell University. For several years, I taught English abroad and traveled – in Spain first, then in Ecuador and Argentina. Later, I earned a master’s in journalism and filed feature stories for daily newspapers in North Carolina. Then, I began to travel and write as a career, beginning at the southern tip of South America and working my way up to Canada. Along the way, I trained in digital photography and video. I often shoot for my stories, and the photos featured on the site are my own.

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About Remy Scalza

Remy Scalza is a freelance journalist and photographer based in Vancouver, Canada. His stories and photos appear in The New York Times, Washington Post, Canadian Geographic and other outlets. Read More…